“The annual income of Christian American churchgoers is $5.2 trillion. The amount of money needed to end global poverty is about $74 billion a year.” That’s 1%. (I wonder how Australian churches stack up?)

The price of 2 coffees can save somebody from drying from malaria, or give 7 people clean water for a year. And yet I keep buying my chai lattes.

And how do those of us who confess to follow Jesus find it so easy to forget half his teachings…ie. “If you have two coats, give one away,” he said. “Do the same with your food.” Luke 3:11, The Message

There is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed. – Ghandi

I am not trying to preach from a soapbox.

I am wrestling with myself.

I am wondering how I am so OK with my life being so amazingly comfortable at the expense of so many in the world.

Wondering how I confess that I care about the poor yet have 10 coats in my wardrobe, without even a thought given to those who made them, or who profited because I purchased them.

I don’t know what to do about it. Yet.

But I do think we are capable of more than just ignoring these issues and going about our comfortable lives swimming in consumeristic excess whilst slowly destroying the planet.